Life log

We went to a small island town last weekend. We didn't eat seafood but we did eat barbequed meats. Pork belly and chicken.

My son, 33 months old, expressed serious GI pain in vocal-plus-body language and gave four consecutive diarrhea on Sunday morning, the last day on the island.

We came back home and now three days have passed. He still gives diarrhea but does not express pain. His diarrhea are like thick japanese curry rather than coffee. Nanny and he met a pediatrician on Monday, and received two medications: trimebutine and Bacillus licheniformis. Doctor heard the sound of gas in his belly. Diagnosis was not specific.

Here where I live, microbiological tests are never done in a trivial case like this. Maybe UK and US are doing that, based on some talks from PHE or GenomeTrakr researchers. It is well justified that we should not spend limited medical resources - including labors and money - on diagnostic tests when it serves more for the curiosity than for the treatment and prevention of the cases. Of course there's a possibility that a trivial case like my son's could be actually inside one local outbreak - in which case, identifying and source-tracking that outbreak can lead to public health improvement. But we don't seek for clusters of cases unless they show themselves apparently.

It's also not likely that digging into one particular infection like would gives something interesting or novel for the scientific field.

So in the end, it's all about personal curiosity. And I am still personally curious to know what the microbe or irritant was, that caused such an illness so casually. What I need is a small lab in my own kitchen.